Archive for December 8th, 2007
Assassination kicks ass
Governments are a lot like old style mafias. Like mafias, governments collect money from people in exchange for services and protection (protection from themselves), they use guns and other forms of pressure to ensure people’s cooperation, they take control of the police force in order to achieve immunity from the law. You object, the mafia [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )I Love It Here
The government has recently passed into law the “Human Security Act”. In the second section of this law there is a promise that during its implementation the “State shall uphold the basic rights and fundamental liberties of the people as enshrined in the constitution”. Now what I love most about our country is the healthy [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Gawad Kalinga for President
If I could, there are a few things I would like to change about GK. It talks too much about patriotism and faith, for example. But what they have shown is that those two things are not deal breakers for them. Gawad Kalinga—an arm of the Catholic lay group, Couples for Christ—builds communities even in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )What I think we should do
I think we should redirect all government funds apart from the upkeep required to run the government’s bureaucracy into roads, residential developments (especially sanitation) for the poor, public health care (including reproductive health), sewage waste and water treatment, and food production. Private companies can bid for contracts, although it will be necessary to subsidize much [...]
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